Chicago theater, and 40 Black Theater Alliance Awards. Production History More than half of the mainstage productions are world and Chicago premieres. The theater's new play development consists of a variety of programs, including world and Chicago premieres, the Blue Ink Award for playwriting, Blueprint play development, and the annual festival of short plays, The Ripped Festival. + indicates World Premiere production Season 1 (1985) Dogman's Last Stand by Rick Cleveland + Season 2 (1986) Geography of a Horse Dreamer by Sam Shepard Hawk Moon by Sam Shepard Season 3 (1987) Summer Brave by William Inge The Hairy Ape by Eugene O'Neill Season 4 (1988) Bad Moon by Rick Cleveland + Season 5 (1989–1990) Desire Under the Elms by Eugene O'Neill Peacekeeper by Keith Reddin Season 6 (1991) Monsters: Glimpses of Urban Lunacy + Season 7 (1992) Monsters II: Visiting Hours + Season 8 (1993) Food From Trash by Gary Leon Hill Season 9 (1994) Monsters III: The El Ride + On the Waterfront by Budd Schulberg and Stan Silverman + Season 10 (1995–1996) Keely and Du by Jane Martin Tom and Jerry by Rick Cleveland + The Homage That Follows" by Mark Medoff Season 11 (1996–1997) The Flight of the Phoenix by Tim Hendrickson + Don't Disappoint Captain January by Joseph Urbinato + Stalag 17 by Donald Bevan and Edmund Trzcinski (co-production with Harvest Productions) Train of Thought by Andrew Micheli + Toys in the Attic by Lillian Hellman Season 12 (1997–1998) A Stone Carver by William Mastrosimone Scapin adapted from Molière by Bill Irwin and Mark O'Donnell Bus Stop by William Inge The Million Bells of Ocean by Edward Mast Season 13 (1998–1999) The Threepenny Opera by Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill One Day Only by Edward Mast + Pledge of Allegiance by Mark R. Giesser Below the Belt by Richard Dresser La Tectonica de las Nubes/Cloud Tectonics by Jose Rivera (co-production with Centro Cultural Helenico, Mexico City) + Season 14 (1999–2000) The Skin of Our Teeth by Thornton Wilder American Buffalo by David Mamet Medea by Euripides, translated by Nicholas Rudall + The Mineola Twins by Paula Vogel Season 15 (2000–2001) Endgame by Samuel Beckett Working by Stephen Schwartz and Nina Faso Vick's Boy by Ben Bettenbender Catch 22 by Joseph Heller + Season 16 (2001–2002) A Lie of the Mind by Sam Shepard Flung by Lisa Dillman The Trip to Bountiful by Horton Foote Season 17